Monthly Software News Jun. 15th to Jul. 14th 2015

A lot of updates in the past month, but not much new ports or new software this time. There is still the notable addition of the Yabause Saturn emulator that shows what the Pandora can do, and what we could expect from the Pyra (full speed Saturn, probably!). Among the updates, ScummVM 1.7 brings more adventure games to the Pandora, and that’s pretty much always a good thing.

New Releases (5):

Yabause: PtitSeb ported this Saturn emulator to the Pandora and tried the best he can to optimize it. Now it can run some games with frameskip at decent rates, but it’s rather a proof of concept for what we can expect with the Pyra: full speed Saturn emulation !

Virtual Jaguar: PtitSeb is progressively filling the gaps in terms of emulation on the Pandora, now with an Atari Jaguar emulator. But don’t expect full speed.

New Firmware:

While still released as RC for now, the 1.72 firmware is available and it’s probably the last version you can expect for the Pandora. Among the different fixes, it brings notable improvements to Wifi performance – your mileage will vary depending on your Pandora, but in my case I jumped from 100 kb/s as max speed to 300~400 kb/s ! That makes practically the Wifi dongle useless at this stage !

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GiantPockets (Previously Known as Pandoralive.info) is a blog dedicated to the Pocket Linux Handheld computers (such as the Open Pandora and the upcoming DragonBox Pyra, but also non-gaming handhelds like the GPD Pocket). These handhelds can be used for gaming but for a bunch of serious uses as they can run full Linux distributions and are typically equipped with physical keyboards. You will find here news regarding their latest software offering, hardware updates, development stories and testimonies of users.